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Are the homelab communities dead? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by myfavouritename@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I've been selfhosting my video / photo / book collections for a while now and also running other services like personal bugeting, piehole DNS, and stuff like that.

Lately I've been working on the hardware side of my home network. I'm looking for some advice and normally I'd turn to one of the homelab communities. But the three communities I found hadn't had much or any activity in the past 6 months.

I considered asking a question here related to my switch and my wifi access point. I bet there are lots of clever folks in this community. But before hitting submit I remembered to check the community rules in the side bar and noticed rule #3:

Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing.

Where do all the lovely self-hosters here turn when they want to chat networking or server hardware? Anyone have some recommendations for neighbouring communities they find useful?

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[–] myfavouritename@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

YouTube has been useful. Mostly as a way to filter out unreliable info. I've had best luck with creators who have actually written out a guide and are then making a video companion for it. Anyone who goes through the trouble to do both tends to be serious about what they are talking about.

But it's not a great way to ask questions and get answers. Hmmm, I say that, but to be honest I haven't checked the comments on those videos. Maybe it is a good way to have a dialogue and I just haven't seen it